The Crazy Challenge #86 - Three Colours of your Choice

Hi Blogland

Just a quick post from me, as life seems to be very busy at the moment and time is slipping through my fingers these days.

It's time for another challenge at The Crazy Challenge, you have to choose 3 colours of your choice for your creation.

This is the card I made:

I chose red, green and white, as I have about a million (okay, slight exaggeration) cards to make and I thought since it is nearly October I should maybe get my skates on :o)

The image is from The Stamping Boutique, lovely big stack of pressies. I blinged them up a bit with some gems and glamour dust.

Pop on over to the Crazy Challenge and have a go, you never know you might be the lucky prize winner.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Willow Sketchie - Challenge with WoW Prize

Thanks for looking folks!

Time for Tea?

...of course you have, there's always time for tea - I'd be a walking nightmare without my tea. Need all the caffine I can get to keep up with my boys!

I made the below card as it reminds me of tea sets I had when I was little, remember making 'tea' for your guests (okay - dolls) in your wendy house :oD

The pp is Back to Basics by Dovecraft, the ribbon is Fizzy Moon and the buttons are from stash (wish I could remember where I got them coz I'm running out, and they're ever so cute)

The image is from Lily of the Valley, coloured with my PMs.

I'd like to enter the above card in the following challenges:

Inspirational Card Sketches - #113 Sponsor Sweet n Sassy Stamps
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT - Challenge 26 Going Dotty (paper and tea set)
Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Childhood Memories

Thanks for looking and any lovely comments you leave!

Lxx

A 40th Anniversary and a Fabby NEW TOY!

Evening all!

Apparently it was a really warm day today??? Not that I noticed while I was converting my car 'James Bond style' into a boat this morning to get to work!

Thought I was going to crash at one point when a truck driving in the other direction drove through a swimming pool on the road and drowned my car - couldn't see a thing in front of me! Lucky I am still here and praying for the sun to please make an appearance next week when I'm off on holiday!

One of my friends was having a wee wander through Facebook a wee while ago and came across my craft album, she then decided that I'm just the person she was looking for and I have so far made 6 cards for her. I love all my crafting and making cards, but making them to order for other people makes me sweat buckets! I suppose if they don't like them you can always use them in the future for someone else though ey?!

Fortunately, she has loved everything I have made her so far. It's her Mum and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary on 17th of this month and I made this wee card for her:

I didn't use any PP as I wanted the red for the ruby wedding to stand out quite a bit, and I also couldn't really find a lot of red PP to play with :o(. If anyone knows where I can get some nice red papers PLEASE let me know...

The stamp is from LOTV, coloured with my PMs, the little bell charm is from Mei Flower and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. CS cut with Nesties Labels - like this one as it is quite similar in shape to the card I have used.

Now - let me introduce you to my new toy. It's a FOILING MACHINE. Yes - no more peel off greetings for me! Billy (lovely hubby person) got me a Laser Printer for my chrimbo (as you need to print the greeting on one for the foil to stick to it). You print your greeting, make sure your Foil It machine is hot enough (has a wee ready light - so really 'dummy proof'), stick your greeting through the machine with the foil colour of your choice wrapped in a wee bitty of paper (so the foil sticks to card and not machine) - and it come out all supercalafragilistic at the other end!!! Doesn't it look fabby-do! I love it. Want to foil everything now! Foil comes in loads of different colours too. Wait til you see the Christening card I made with the pink foil for the greetings - see - it's even made me like PINK!!! Love it, love it! If you'd like to be the lucky owner of this fabglorious machine you can buy one from Patsy May HERE, and postage is just a wee £1 at the moment for a limited time! All the foil is there too - go on - you know you wanna :oD

Also foiled this wee sentiment! Told you - no stopping me now - you can even print digi images or any image really and then use one of the colours (or more than one if you like) to make it all shiney, shiney!!

Do you think I really like my new machine then??

I'd like to enter the above wee card into the following challenges:

Oldie but a Goodie - Wedding or Anniversary
Craft Your Passions - Challenge #52 Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenge - 14 Weddings/ Anniversaries
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes (optional extra - my new flowers from Wild Orchid)
The Crazy Challenge - #61 Just Add Flowers

Thanks once again for looking and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

I'm away to have a HUGE M & S Cookie (mmmmm) and that lovely hubby person I was talking about earlier is making me a nice cuppa to go with it - might even give him one ;o)

Lxx

Card for a Boy!

Evening all!

This is a card that I have made for a boy - well having two I have to make quite a few cards for boys, and am getting quite used to it - as you can imagine.

The image is from LOTV and I have paper-pieced the hat dungarees and bits of his shoes. The paper is by K & Co 'Hopscotch' and I have coloured the rest of the image with Promarkers.

Isn't he sweet - sometimes boys are better sleeping I think :o).

I thought this wee sentiment from Papermania suited the card to a T.

I'd like to enter the card in the following challenges

Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog - Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails.

Cards For Men - Challenge Number 6 - A sketch and a DT Call

Sarah Hurley - Challenge 35 - Go Green

One Stitch at a Time - Something for the Boys

Stamping B's Challenge # 103 - Masculine Card

Thanks once again for looking and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

L :o)

A Happy Ever After...

I'm back!

I had a wee bit of spare time on my hands so thought I would make a couple of challenge cards today. On doing this I have discovered that I really really NEED craft storage space!!! Although even once I have it I probably still won't be able to find what I want in my stash.

After much hunting I came across all the bits for the below wedding card, it could also be used for an anniversary card as the sentiment is quite generic (big word for a Sunday). I think I will be giving it to my mum and dad who will be 44 years married this year.

The stamped image is by Lily of the Valley and the sentiment is by Elzybell. The papers are Papermania ones that I have had for years - hence why I couldn't find them :o) The flowers are from stash and the pearls from Kaiser Scrapbook. The flower centre is a brad which was part of a huge scrapbook set from Costco, which I got for very little pennies :oD - love a bargain me!

I'd like to enter this challenge in:

LOTV Challenge Blog - Challenge 67 Sketch by Bev

Thanks for looking and for any comments

Lxx

First Christmas Cards of 2010!

It's only about 3 months until my favourite time of year! Yes - Christmas is just around the corner and I can't wait. Robert is after an i-pod touch and Ross wants the contents of the Argos catalogue (well - the toy section anyway). I'd just like more Time - anyone know of a good shop that sells some?

I have managed to make 2 Christmas Cards so far, but am quite pleased with them. Guess which one I love the best!

The stamp is by Lily of the Valley - one of their new Teddy James stamps. He's such a cute wee bear, and I love that he's all tangled up in the tinsel.

He's coloured with my Koh-i-noors and Promarkers and there is about a ton of glitter and glamour-dust on him - all sparkly just like Christmas should be.

I added some glamour-dusty snowflakes and wee gems to the centres of them and a bit of snowflake ribbon the same colour as the backing paper.

Finally a wee sentiment from my stash of stamps and that's it! Quite a quick, simple card to make, but I think it looks great.

Next is the same teddy in more traditional Christmas Colours.

Again I have used my Koh-i-noor pencils and Promarkers to colour him.

I was originally going to colour the sentiment, but think it looks great just the way it is. I added a little bit of bling to the left hand side of the card to balance it a little.

Then I die-cut a Christmas Ornament, coloured it with my Promarkers and went a bit daft with the glamour-dust again! The ornament is hanging from the sentiment on silvery beaded thread, just to set it off.

I hope you like my first two Christmas cards, hopefully I will get the chance to make more.

I think I will enter the first card (as it is my favourtie) into two challenges (my first time doing this - ooooohhhh) as he is my favourite card - have I said that already LOL.

LOTV's Challenge Blog - Untraditional Christmas
Keep It Simple - Bling It

Thanks for looking and for any comments you leave.

Lxx

My Wee Cousins is now a Mrs

Morning from a beautiful sunny Beith.

My wee cousin got married in Montreal, Canada. I couldn't manage to go to the wedding, as much as I would have loved to as a Scottish/Greek wedding sounds like a fantastic excuse for a party! I used to babysit Nicola when she was ickle and I can't believe she's married, where did those years go (answers on a postcard please :oD)?

This is the card I made for Nic and her new hubby Tim.

The stamp is from Lily of the Valley . I just love these kiddies dressed up in wedding togs. It reminds me of when I was little, trying on my mum's wedding dress and imagining that it was my big day!

I coloured the back ground of the image with Worn Lipstick Distressing ink and coloured the image with my Promarkers. The papers are from My Minds Eye that I got as a freebie with a magazine. I added two wee flowers to the top left and bottom right corners and little pearls to the centres to finish them off.

I love this little sentiment from Elzybells which I cut out freehand and inked up with the distressing ink and mounted to match the background.

I don't know where I got this little bow from, but it's so cute I wish I could remember. I added ribbon in the same colours as the bow and mounted the bow on the bottom left of the card.

Well that's it - the newly married's are in Peru at the moment on Honeymoon. I wish them all the best for their future together and hope they end up old wrinkly married's!

Lxx